Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 8

Yes, yes,' she was in the habit of saying, when I come to die I shall take a longer journey than I have made my whole life long.

Who acts: Moon, habit, I · What happens: be, say, come, die, take, make · To what, where: habit, longer journey, whole life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, habit, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 habit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 habit	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 yes	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 habit	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 habit	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 habit	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 habit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 habit	det
10	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 saying	mark
12	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 habit	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 come	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 saying	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 die	mark
18	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	xcomp
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 die	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 journey	det
23	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 journey	amod
24	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 made	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 take	advcl
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 life	amod
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obj
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 made	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 habit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Moon		the habit		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the habit not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	I				tree rules
4	die	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	take	shall	I	a longer journey			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
6	make	present · perfect	I	my whole life		long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Product

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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